Re: -j zImage (locales)

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:29:58 +0100 (GMT)


Hi all.

>>> Dunno. Maybe Linus should start putting code and documentation
>>> written in .fi, others in .cz, .es, .de, etc. The point is, I
>>> cant help this guy it I dont know german. Or japanese, or
>>> whatever. We have a more or less common language. Why not stick
>>> to it?

>> We don't and the respective "One language fits all" attitude is
>> pissing of quite a number of people. Remember that people on this
>> list tend do be higher school education than the average person on
>> this planet. If Linux wants to succeed beyond a certain limit it
>> will have to become multiligual despite all the technical problems
>> this will result in. This will be one of the key points to ``world
>> domination'' just as important as apps.

> What about a numeric code to go with the error? Then we could just
> look up the error if we can;t read the laguage ...

Memory says that the FTP protocol does precicely this, and for
precicely this reason. If it works there, why can't it also work here?

Best wishes from Riley.

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